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Performances will begin on 5 December 2020 for Les Misérables -The Staged Concert at the Sondheim Theatre. Today it is officially announced that the run will extend to 28 February 2021. Additional dates have been added to help accommodate Patrons who are affected by the Government’s latest directive requiring Theatres to further reduce their seating... Continue Reading →
Channing Tatum and his co-producers are delighted to announce that Magic Mike Live will be returning to its London home on Friday 16 April 2021. For anyone booking by 31 December 2020, they will receive complimentary Prosecco during the show for the booking period up to and including 27 June 2021. Patrons will experience a... Continue Reading →
This Christmas, Greenwich Theatre reopens with Russ Tunney’s thrilling festive adaptation of Joan Aiken’s classic children’s novel, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. This fun-filled socially distanced adventure is accompanied by an online and interactive experience, Sir Willoughby’s Challenge, for those unable to attend the live performance. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of... Continue Reading →
Six has announced that it will extend for a further 11 weeks through to April 18, 2021 at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End. In these uncertain times and awaiting news from the Government on the new tiering system and specifically which tier London will fall into, the good news for... Continue Reading →
A star cast will join Brian Conley in the new, musical staged concert of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent's A Christmas Carol, which is set to play a strictly limited season at the Dominion Theatre in London. Performances run from Monday 7 December 2020 to Saturday 2 January 2021. I’m A Celebrity…2019 winner... Continue Reading →
The producers of The Show Must Go On! Live at The Palace Theatre, have announced that the show will be rescheduled. The concert will now run from 20 - 24 January 2021 and customers will be contacted about the exchange of their tickets. Casting for the new dates may be subject to change and will... Continue Reading →
The world premiere of the new British musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost and directed by Charlotte Westenra, will take place in January at the Southwark Playhouse. This enchanting new British musical explores the extraordinary world of a sorcerer and his rebellious daughter, as she discovers the explosive possibilities of... Continue Reading →
West End stars Gina Beck and Neil McDermott write and star in the world premiere of ‘The Elf Who Was Scared of Christmas’, which will run at London's Charing Cross Theatre next month. Meet Figgy and Cupcake, two of Santa’s Christmas elves. For 11 months of the year, Cupcake is a bright and bubbly bundle... Continue Reading →
A cast of 14, including Stephen Fry and James Norton, will celebrate the re-opening of the West End in an exclusive semi-staged rehearsed reading of The Understudy which was presented as an animated online play in May to raise funds for the theatre industry. The play will once again be raising much needed funds for... Continue Reading →
Following the Government’s announcement on 31 October 2020 of new national restrictions from 5 November 2020, the new spine-chilling ghost story, When Darkness Falls, which was due to play a limited season from 25 November to 12 December 2020 at The Union Theatre in London, will now be postponed. The Box Office will be in... Continue Reading →
